> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:52:15AM +0000, Lee Calcote (lecalcot) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What support does Ceilometer provide today and what support is planned to > > provide for financial management? While Ceilometer provides functionality > > for *metering* and *billing integration* as two categories of financial > > management, does it provide for others (e.g. *pricing* - a method to set > > prices on common objects)? I consider that financial management breaks > > into these categories (and quite possibly others): > > The main goal of ceilometer is metering, and from what I understand > all the billing processing is not something that fit or will in this > project.
Your understanding is correct ... directly addressing the billing stage of the pipeline was explicitly a non-goal for ceilometer from the very outset IIRC. Cheers, Eoghan > > Is support for these other categories planned for Ceilometer or other > > components? Have these use cases been successfully provided for in > > Ceilometer to date or have they yet to be achieved - > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Ceilometer/blueprints/support-for-advance-s > > ervice-billing-models? > > > We've started some work around the question, the project is hosted on > stackforge : https://github.com/stackforge/cloudkitty > Our main goal at the moment is to create reports with billing > informations. Everything is gathered directly from ceilometer. > > In a near future we want to add the pricing informations directly in > horizon. > > At the moment we're not addressing accounting/financial management > functions. > > We've only really worked on what we needed to implement. We would be > happy to hear about your use cases to see where the project should head. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org > Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack Post to : openstack@lists.openstack.org Unsubscribe : http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack